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  <text>If you have dual monitors and would like to make some use of the expanded realestate, check this out. I found this today in vs2005 and appreciate it in particular while I'm researching legacy workplace architecture and abstract call trees.

1. Make your main Visual Studio application window a sizeable window (not minimized or maximized).

2. Resize it to stretch it as wide as you'd prefer across both monitors (the 2nd image below completely spans the width and height of both my monitors)

3. Right click on an open source code window's tab and choose New Vertical Tab Group. The result is two fully independent code panes, with independent scrolling, browsing, etc.  You can also create numerous horizontal tab groups, which I didn't explore yet.

4. Use your mouse to drag/place the vertical splitter where you prefer (in the 2nd image below, my splitter sits right at the border between my two monitors, so that the left side filles the entire left monitor).  

5. You can drag and drop source code window tabs to put them in one group or another.  

6. You can keep splitting to have numerous independent code panes with their own tab groups.  Each tab group has its own window list.

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&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td align='left'&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Create New Tab Group (click &amp;gt;)&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
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&lt;a href="http://aabmag23a/devnotes/wp-content/createNewTabGroup.png" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://aabmag23a/devnotes/wp-content/createNewTabGroupMini.png" alt="Create a new tab group (click to enlarge)" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td align='left'&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Multiple editor panes on multiple monitors (click &amp;gt;)&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
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&lt;a href="http://aabmag23a/devnotes/wp-content/dualMons.png" target="_blank"&gt;;&lt;img src="http://aabmag23a/devnotes/wp-content/dualMonsMini.png" alt="Split Windows on 2 Screens (click to enlarge)" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
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  <last_update>2007-10-04T00:52:33.1090806Z</last_update>
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